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Half our daily website traffic reads Biographies…about 150 each day.

Much has been written about the war – who won, who lost; whether we should have been there at all. We tried to stop the supplies coming south; we supported our troops on the ground; we fought with and for our South Vietnamese allies. We did it day and night

The 50th Anniversary of the TET Offensive at the  Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum
This event was managed by the Bob “Hoppy” Hopkins from start to finish: the concept, the artist, the financing, getting Udvar-Hazy approval, dinner, et al.  The airplane, the lightbox, the airfoils, the now-enshrined and engraved Wall of Honor are all a fitting SSS monument to our legacies and heritage.

The Misty Pilot’s bank account was used to buy a pig-in-the-poke, just trusting the Smithsonian staff with $10,000 and a couple of concept sketches rushed into production. The museum came through and the lightbox dramatically enhances the painting!

The 50th Anniversary of the TET Offensive at the  Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum
This event was managed by the Bob “Hoppy” Hopkins from start to finish: the concept, the artist, the financing, getting Udvar-Hazy approval, dinner, et al.  The airplane, the lightbox, the airfoils, the now-enshrined and engraved Wall of Honor are all a fitting SSS monument to our legacies and heritage.

The Misty Pilot’s bank account was used to buy a pig-in-the-poke, just trusting the Smithsonian staff with $10,000 and a couple of concept sketches rushed into production. The museum came through and the lightbox dramatically enhances the painting!

Our newest SSS member, then-1st Lt. Hayden J. Lockhart, was the first USAF Pilot to be shot down and captured during the Vietnam War. He was shot down March 2, 1965, while flying an F-100 Super Sabre with the 613th Tactical Fighter Squadron on flak suppression on a North Vietnam

The Fall 2017 edition of our journal went to our printer and was approved for publication on 31 October (Halloween).  It is now winding its way through the process of getting your copy to you … wherever you are.  The print job went to our mailing contractor today, 9 November 2017, and the finished documents should be put into the USPS First Class, Pre-Sorted Mail on Monday, 13 November 2017.  So, expect to see it in your mail-boxes a few days later, depending on how far you live away from Ft. Worth, TX.

Meanwhile, you can go to our website and explore the contents of Issue 35 and other information about our journal.

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The 2017 average rate for time on any website is 50-60 seconds. Readers who “bounce” meaning that they open the page and don’t click on anything spend only 5 seconds on a site. The latest statistics for the Super Sabre Society website show that visitors spend an average of 16.5

The Super Sabre Society website will now feature monthly stories about F-100 pilot’s, so grandchildren and others in the year 2050 and beyond can hear about a pilot or family member’s experience of the F-100, the first fighter capable of supersonic level flight.

Duane and his F-100 in Vietnam
This story is from this month’s featured video by Duane Baker’s son David. David was 5-years-old when his father was “Lost in Combat”.

Captain Duane S. Baker, United States Air Force, loved to fly. When he was four, his mom, “Lila” Marie Baker took him to an airshow. Fascinated, he asked her “what made it stay up.” From then on, all he ever wanted was to be a pilot. If he could connect it back to airplanes in school, he would, frustrating his teachers. One teacher assigned him a report about Native Americans, thinking this would give him a break from all the flying business. He found a Native American who was a pilot in WWII and wrote about the plane he flew. He graduated from Oregon State with an A average in Aeronautical Engineering. He joined the Air Force and wanted to fly the F-100 Super Sabre, known to pilots as the “The Hun”. In pilot training, he worked hard and graduated third in his class behind two former Air Force navigators, and second in the gunnery school class at Luke AFB behind an experienced pilot who was transitioning to fighters.

The Vietnam War was a defining event in our lifetime. It changed the nation. I was fortunate enough to be invited to attend the 1-hour screening of the preview of Ken Burns’ epic 18-hour PBS series on the Vietnam War in D.C. last week at the Wilson Center. My reaction

I had a great time meeting General Shepperd and General McPeak at the preview of the Ken Burns and Lynn Novick documentary “The Vietnam War” in Washington, DC this week. Don Shepperd was the perfect host and General McPeak had us all laughing prior to the showing of the film.

The Super Sabre Society celebrates the official adoption of the United States of America’s new flag, on June 14, 1777. The U.S. Army also has adopted this date as its official birthday, with the establishment of the American Continental Army on June 14, 1775. We will spend a few additional

The Super Sabre Society celebrates the official adoption of the United States of America’s new flag, on June 14, 1777. The U.S. Army also has adopted this date as its official birthday, with the establishment of the American Continental Army on June 14, 1775. We will spend a few additional

On this day: 64 years ago, North American F-100 Super Sabre, the first of the Century Series of jet fighters, and the… Posted by Air Power on Thursday, 25 May 2017